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  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed;

 /**
  * Allows property sheet page contributors to map the input object type to a
  * domain model type. The domain model type is then used for matching against
  * the input attribute of the propertySection extension.
  * <p>
  * The type mapper is most frequently used to return the type of the model
  * object when selecting a view object in a workbench part. For example, nodes
  * in a tree may all be TreeObjects in a structured selection. The type mapper
  * will take the tree node and return the type of the model object the node
  * represents.
  * </p>
  * <p>
  * This interface should not be extended or implemented. New type mapper instances
  * should be created using <code>AbstractTypeMapper</code>.
  * </p>
  *
  * @author Anthony Hunter
  */
 public interface ITypeMapper {

     /**
      * Map the input object to a domain model type.
      *
      * @param object
      * the input object.
      * @return the type of the input object, mapped to the domain type if
      * required.
      */
     public Class mapType(Object object);
 }

